Common Name
Dragon fruit
Family
CACTACEAE
Select
Epiphytes
Spanish Name
Pitahaya
- Grows on rocks or above trees supported on its branches and getting nutrients from the suspended air. It is also cultivated in several parts of Costa Rica for its edible and commercialized fruit.
- Pollinated mainly by moths and seeds dispersed by birds, bats and other mammals.
- Red flesh dragon fruit extract has been used as a medicinal properties such as antioxidant, anticancer, hypocholesterolemic, antimicrobial, and prebiotic PROPAGATION: Seeds or splitting.